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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Christmas Tree Gift Tags

Felt
Christmas Tree Homemade Gift Tags!

If there are two things I love in life, its giving gifts and procrastinating from studying. SO, what's better than combining the two?! Yes, I should surely have been studying neurobiology.. but everyone deserves a little break, right??

Step #2: Practice folding the piece of felt on your piece of scrapbook paper until the little tree looks the way you like! This way you won't have to take any sewing out later to fix things:

Step #3: Start sewing the bottom of the semicircle onto
the piece of scrapbook pound paper. I had already punched my scrapbook paper:

Step #4: Fold the free part of the felt semicircle to the right and start sewing on the next tier:

Step #5:Fold the next free part of the semicircle to the left and start sewing on the next tier:

Step #6: Now
there are two choices… I sewed up into the tip of the tree a little bit before
folding over the last tier to keep the tree more secure on the paper. You could
also just fold the tier over and then add a bit of superglue under that flap to
keep it secure on the rest of the tree. I’ve found that superglue does rather
nicely on felt.

Step #7: If
you’re anything like me, there will be an absolute mess on the flip side after
sewing the tree on:

Step #8: Not
a worry!! Just take another piece of paper and glue it on the back! I used a
white index card because I was running low on pound paper, but the same color
paper would make the tag look a little more professional: